In recent years, politicians and political parties have increasingly adopted various social
media as political communication platforms. While the research on the topic has provided …

Some worry that increased partisanship is lowering trust in the news media, as people
increasingly come into contact with cross-cutting news coverage. We use multilevel analysis …

Psychologists, economists, historians, computer scientists, sociologists, philosophers, and
legal scholars explore the conscious choice not to seek information. The history of …

During the last decades populism has become a mainstream ideology in Western
democracies (Mudde, 2004; 2016). At the same time, the popularisation of digital platforms …

Populism has been on the rise in many countries. As a result, studies on populism have
proliferated. However, there are very few studies that investigate and compare different …

Political candidates use social media extensively in campaigning. In an effort to better
understand the content of political messages, we have explored various machine learning …

The digital transformation has had a profound impact on political communication. It has
lowered the access barrier for actors to become publicly visible and reconfigured …

This article provides a theoretical and philosophical investigation for the discursive
construction of truth based predominantly upon the discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe …

Las dos elecciones españolas de 2019, celebradas el 28 de abril (28A) y el 10 de
noviembre (10N), estuvieron marcadas por la irrupción del partido Vox, populista de …

Right-wing populism is typically entangled with xenophobic nationalism and neo-
conservatism, which often usher in racism and misogyny. In this chapter, the authors take …